I suspected a connection also with the Ransom Cloud who married Katherine Hildebrand. but there are limited resources for North Carolina at the library I have access to....I have been able to comtact someone who is a decendant of Ransom and Katherine, but we could make no connection... As far as Zilpha goes, this Zilpha is the only Zilpha Cloud I have ever seen, and the Clouds always seemed to name their children after each other. Reba